Letter To Anna
The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death. 2008
On October 7, 2006, Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday, the journalist
Anna Politkovskaja is shot in the lift of her Moscow home. Anna’s death
is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she is to become a
grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaja
was the President’s fiercest critic. Why was she shot in cold blood,
this elegant woman who was always on the side of the weak and those who
had no rights? Was it because of the stance she took against the war in
Chechnya – a war that was virtually ignored in the world at large and
yet became a turning point in Anna’s life? – LETTER TO ANNA – a
personal quest, but also a political one.
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